R v A 2010
The firm currently acts in an SFO prosecution for an alleged £50m commercial mortgage fraud.
R v K 2010
The firm currently acts in an HMRC prosecution for an alleged £133m fraud on the Revenue.
R v P 2010
The firm succesfully defended an SFO prosecution of our client in an alleged multi-million pound boiler room share dealing fraud. Our client was tried in his absence, but acquitted by a unanimous verdict after we continued to represent him at the trial.
2010
We continue to advise in a City of London police enquiry into alleged fraud by solicitors in the personal injury claims market.
R v S 2009
Two acquittals achieved in a trial of alleged money laundering at Isleworth Crown Court. A mother and son were acquitted after a two month trial.
R v P 2008
This firm assisted the defendant successfully advance an abuse of process application in respect of confiscation proceedings worth £4.5m. The case was stayed after the defendant was left unrepresented by counsel at Harrow Crown Court. It was argued that he could not have a fair hearing at his confiscation trial because he could not be adequately represented without counsel. Legal aid did not provide sufficient funding to pay for the necessary representation, which included counsel of sufficient experience, while the law prevented him for paying for his representation himself. See copy of judgment at R v P
R v L 2008
This firm represented a client facing a demand for recovery in excess of nearly £12m which was alleged to be the proceeds of crime. This firm succeeded in reducing the amount payable by nearly 80%.
El -Kurd v RCPO (Court of Appeal) 2007
This firm has successfully overturned the conviction of our client Mr El-Kurd who was convicted in a high profile case during 1998 for offences of alleged money laundering. During the course of these proceedings, RCPO challenged the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in the exercise of its discretion in landmark judicial review proceedings. This firm, instructing William Clegg QC and Ian Bridge assisted the CCRC in disposing of that action as well, thereby preserving the CCRC's discretion to refer cases to the Court of Appeal where an application for leave is made out of time.
R v M 2007
This firm sucessfully defended the operator of an excavator vehicle through his first trial and then a re-trial for casuing the death of a co-worker through gross negligence, after the bucket detached from his machine and fatally struck a man below. This was the first case of the HSE mounting a joint prosecution in conjunction with Essex Police.
R v K, A and others 2007
This firm acted in possibly the largest single prosecution for alleged MTIC fraud in the history of the Revenue & Customs Prosecution Office. In 2005, dozens of arrests were made principally in the Northampton area resulting in three linked trials being run at the Northampton Crown Court.
R v B 2006
This firm represented a client facing three individual counts of conspiracy to defraud in an alleged case of Boiler Room activity in which allegedly valueless company shares were sold to members of the public. This firm succeeded in avoiding convictions on all counts of conspiracy to defraud.
R v C-C
This firm acted in what is accepted as being the longest running extradition case in British legal history. The case involves allegations from the USA dating back to 1981. We fought extradition to a southern state of the US where chain gangs are still operating. The case has attracted substantial press coverage and political debate.
R v S and others 2005
This firm represented one of the principal defendants in the Serious Fraud Office prosecution for alleged theft and misappropriation of £35 million from the former dot-com giant Izodia Plc in 2002. As a result of vigorous defending the case was discontinued against our client at a very early stage in the trial.
R v N and others 2002-2005
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Corporate Fraud
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Southwark Crown Court
This high profile case was widely reported on all news channels including the BBC and in every national newspaper. Detective Sergeant Peter Foley, from the Economic and Specialist Crime Command, said: “This is the largest case of mail destruction ever investigated and the sheer volume of people who have been affected is incredible.”
R v C 2005
This case involved allegations of conspiracy to defraud the Secretary of State for the Home Office where the political background involved the resignation of Beverly Hughes and the Sutton Inquiry which concerned wide scale abuses of the European Community Association Agreement ( ECAA) visa application scheme in Romania and Bulgaria. We represented the British solicitor concerned.
R v C and others 2003-2005
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Southwark Crown Court
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Money Laundering
Trumpeted in September 2003 as being the "most significant arrest of the top tier of Columbian money launderers/drug dealers in the UK" (BBC). This case was investigated by the former Flying Squad of New Scotland Yard. The case arose out of a two year surveillance operation in London and internationally and was a joint operation between UK, Columbian and US investigators.
R v M and others 2002-2005
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Money Laundering
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Kingston Crown Court
This was a massive money laundering prosecution involving sixteen defendants that ran for approximately three years pre-trial before collapsing as a result of the Crown being forced to offer no further evidence against our client and others. This firm represented a principal defendant in one of the most significant cases of alleged money laundering prosecuted by Revenue & Customs in recent years.
R v M and others 2002-2004
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SFO/Pension Fraud
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Birmingham Crown Court
This case was prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office and this firm represented one of the principal defendants to trial where the allegation was fraud in respect of a notable Pension Fund.
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Tebay Rail Inquiry 2004
This firm represented a corporate client during the British Transport Police (B.T.P)/ Health and Safety Executive (H.S.E) investigation and inquiry into the tragedy at Tebay in February 2004. In this incident a trailer broke away from its road rail vehicle whilst being loaded with sections of rail. After traveling several miles downhill it struck a number of rail workers killing four of them. A wide ranging and thorough investigation by the Rail Safety Standards Board, HSE and BTP followed into the various contractors and institutions.
R v S & Others 2003-2004
This firm represented one of the principle defendants in an alleged embezzlement of over $5 million from the Bank of America.
R v W & Others 2002-2003
This firm represented one of only two defendants to be acquitted in a large-scale MTIC fraud prosecuted by HM Customs & Excise. This firm has subsequently been instructed to conduct a number of appeals by defendants accused of MTIC frauds. These appeals are currently being heard in the Court of Appeal.
R v S and others
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SFO/Tax Fraud
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Wood Green Crown Court
A Serious Fraud Office prosecution of a number of defendants accused of fraud in relation to the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme. The original investigation started in 1999.
R v R and others 2001-2002
This firm acted for one of the principal defendants in what is said to be the largest money laundering operation prosecuted at any time in the UK. The value of money moved in the case (£571 million) represented the equivalent of 2% of all cash in circulation in the UK at any one time. The case was the result of a two year surveillance operation conducted all over the UK by the former National Investigation Service of HM Customs & Excise.
R v S and others 2001-2002
This case featured in a television documentary on BBC2 entitled "Britain’s Richest Criminals". The case involved allegations of money laundering arising out of a smuggling operation between Eastern Europe and the UK on a massive scale. Our client was the only defendant to be acquitted after a long trial.
HMCE v B 2001-2002
This firm successfully secured the acquittal of a female Jamaican national accused of being a "mule". Having been arrested at Heathrow airport in possession of 1kg of cocaine in her stomach, the client described her acquittal as a miracle.
R v C and others 2000-2001
This case involved allegations of contrived insolvencies in the former "rag trade" and was the last known prosecution of its size and type. This firm successfully stopped the case against one of the principal defendants who was the accountant for all of the twenty seven companies involved.
An investigation by the Special Branch ensued after the fall of the Labour run Hackney Council after three decades of control. Simon Morgan represented a number of Liberal Democrat and Tory Councillor's through the course of the Special Branch's investigation.